Your mission <ul><li>Your task will be to establish, structure, and lead the legal department of the company by designing and implementing internal processes and policies.</li><li>Therefore, you act as the primary legal advisor to the management team and other departments and collaborate with external law firms and manage the legal budget.</li><li>It is within your responsibility to ensure legal compliance across all aspects of the business, including corporate governance, employment, data protection, and regulatory issues.</li><li>For this, you draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts (e.g. NDAs, supplier, customer, partnership agreements).</li><li>You will handle legal risk assessment and mitigation strategies and support strategic business initiatives with legal insight, including M&amp;A, fundraising, and international expansion.</li><li>If applicable, there is the chance to lead and grow a team of legal professionals, providing mentorship and performance oversight.</li></ul> Your profile <ul><li>You have 5–10 years of professional legal experience in fast-paced, high-growth environments — ideally in the start-up or scale-up ecosystem.</li><li>You are experienced in setting up or significantly shaping legal functions within a company, ideally with leadership or team management skills. </li><li>You have a strong commercial and pragmatic legal mindset with a hands-on execution style.</li><li>You convince us with your excellent communication and negotiation skills (in German and English) and are able to work collaboratively across departments.</li><li>It is a plus if you have relevant work experience and expertise in the field of European waste regulation.</li><li>Additionally, you show us a high level of motivation and ownership, with a proactive and solution-oriented approach.</li></ul> Why us? <ul style="list-style-type:disc;margin-left:0px;"><li style="margin-left:0px;">Working in a young and interdisciplinary scale-up team </li><li style="margin-left:0px;">A lot of responsibility and creative freedom right from the start </li><li style="margin-left:0px;">Active contribution to climate protection &amp; circular economy  </li><li style="margin-left:0px;">Active involvement in decisions</li><li style="margin-left:0px;">Team spirit and a family atmosphere </li></ul>

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<div id="ember55" class="ember-view organization-about-module__content-consistant-cards-description">cylib GmbH is a research-based company for holistic battery recycling enabling the green energy transition by ensuring the supply of sustainable raw materials for the battery industry. cylib's proprietary end-to-end recycling process is characterized by an efficient, resource- and climate-friendly recovery of all raw materials in a battery, including lithium, graphite, nickel, cobalt and manganese from battery packs, production scraps, or micromobility batteries. Founded in 2022 in Aachen, Germany, the company builds on nearly a decade of research by the founding team. cylib was founded by Lilian Schwich (CEO), Paul Sabarny (CTO), and Dr.-Ing. Gideon Schwich (COO), with the mission to create a true circular economy.</div>
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(Senior) Legal Counsel (m/f/d)

Your mission <ul><li>Your task will be to establish, structure, and lead the legal department of the company by designing and implementing internal processes and policies.</li><li>Therefore, you act as the primary legal advisor to the management team and other departments and collaborate with external law firms and manage the legal budget.</li><li>It is within your responsibility to ensure legal compliance across all aspects of the business, including corporate governance, employment, data protection, and regulatory issues.</li><li>For this, you draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts (e.g. NDAs, supplier, customer, partnership agreements).</li><li>You will handle legal risk assessment and mitigation strategies and support strategic business initiatives with legal insight, including M&amp;A, fundraising, and international expansion.</li><li>If applicable, there is the chance to lead and grow a team of legal professionals, providing mentorship and performance oversight.</li></ul> Your profile <ul><li>You have 5–10 years of professional legal experience in fast-paced, high-growth environments — ideally in the start-up or scale-up ecosystem.</li><li>You are experienced in setting up or significantly shaping legal functions within a company, ideally with leadership or team management skills.&nbsp;</li><li>You have a strong commercial and pragmatic legal mindset with a hands-on execution style.</li><li>You convince us with your excellent communication and negotiation skills (in German and English) and are able to work collaboratively across departments.</li><li>It is a plus if you have relevant work experience and expertise in the field of European waste regulation.</li><li>Additionally, you show us a high level of motivation and ownership, with a proactive and solution-oriented approach.</li></ul> Why us? <ul><li>Working in a&nbsp;young&nbsp;and interdisciplinary&nbsp;scale-up&nbsp;team&nbsp;</li><li>A&nbsp;lot&nbsp;of&nbsp;responsibility&nbsp;and&nbsp;creative&nbsp;freedom&nbsp;right&nbsp;from&nbsp;the&nbsp;start&nbsp;</li><li>Active&nbsp;contribution&nbsp;to&nbsp;climate&nbsp;protection&nbsp;&amp; circular&nbsp;economy&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Active&nbsp;involvement&nbsp;in&nbsp;decisions</li><li>Team&nbsp;spirit&nbsp;and a&nbsp;family&nbsp;atmosphere&nbsp;</li></ul>

(Senior) Legal Counsel (m/f/d)

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